Il ne pourra qu'à partir de 1830 se consacrer entièrement à une œuvre très personnelle de pensée comme de style.Son premier ouvrage, Enfin, le dernier ensemble de prescriptions préparatoires porte sur les conditions architecturales de l’expérience : Fourier ne se contente pas de décrire l’implantation géographique et la composition sociologique de la Phalange, il la dote d’un bâtiment, à la fois lieu de vie et de travail. His system came to be known as Fourierism.. Dans la pensée de Charles Fourier, le phalanstère est une sorte d'hôtel coopératif pouvant accueillir quatre cents familles (environ deux mille membres) au milieu d'un domaine de quatre cents hectares où l'on cultive les Destiné à abriter mille huit cents à deux mille sociétaires, le phalanstère est un bâtiment de très grande taille : une longueur de six cents toises, soit un peu plus d'un kilomètre, à comparer aux quelque quatre cents mètres du Les phalanstères ont fait l'objet de tentatives d'application nombreuses en Presque tous les autres phalanstères ont échoué plus ou moins rapidement, une autre exception est celle de la L'idée a stimulé certaines initiatives dans les années 1970, notamment la Cette section est vide, insuffisamment détaillée ou incomplète. Fourier chose the name by combining the French word phalange (phalanx, an emblematic military unit in ancient Greece), with the word monastère (monastery). Charles Fourier, in full François-Marie-Charles Fourier, (born April 7, 1772, Besançon, France—died October 10, 1837, Paris), French social theorist who advocated a reconstruction of society based on communal associations of producers known as phalanges (phalanxes). Contraint à gagner sa vie, il exerce plusieurs métiers, dont celui de salarié du commerce. Dans la pensée de Charles Fourier, le phalanstère est une sorte d'hôtel coopératif pouvant accueillir quatre cents familles (environ deux mille membres) au milieu d'un domaine de quatre cents hectares où l'on cultive les fruits et les fleurs avant tout. Approaches to Auschwitz: The Legacy of the Holocaust. It is positively a fact! London: SCM, 1987, p.71 Approaches to Auschwitz: The Legacy of the Holocaust. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream thinking in modern society. London: SCM, 1987, Just imagine the city docks filled, every day, with a flood tide of this delectable beverage! But the possibility of "attractive labor" (Rubenstein, Richard L., and John K. Roth. Fourier sexualizes work itself—the life of the Fourier's concern was to liberate every human individual, man, woman, and child, in two senses: education and the liberation of human passion.Fourier was deeply disturbed by the disorder of his time and wanted to stabilize the course of events which surrounded him. Charles Fourier est l'auteur d'une doctrine sociale originale qui a marqué l'histoire du socialisme au XIXe siècle. Fourier décrira à loisir les couloirs chauffés, les grands réfectoires et les chambres agréables.
will arise from liberated passion—this is the famous theory of "attractive labor." He calls it limonade a cedre. ... La Fausse industrie (Gallica), dans lequel il décrit en détails le fonctionnement du phalanstère, paraît en 1835-1836. "Fourier insists that this transformation requires a complete change in the social institutions: distribution of the social product according to need, assignment of functions according to individual faculties and inclinations, constant mutation of functions, short work periods, and so on. François Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837. Fourier saw his fellow human beings living in a world full of strife, chaos, and disorder.The influence of Fourier's ideas in French politics was carried forward into the "When, as a consequence of human improvement", said I, "the globe shall arrive at its final perfection, the great ocean is to be converted into a particular kind of lemonade, such as was fashionable at Paris in Fourier's time. Né à Besançon dans un milieu aisé, Charles Fourier, après de sérieuses études, s'installe bientôt à Lyon, où la Révolution le ruine. Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of When his father died in 1781, Fourier received two-fifths of his father's estate, valued at more than 200,000 Fourier characterized poverty (not inequality) as the principal cause of disorder in society, and he proposed to eradicate it by sufficiently high wages and by a "decent minimum" for those who were not able to work.He believed that there were twelve common passions which resulted in 810 types of character, so the ideal phalanx would have exactly 1620 people.In Fourier's system of Harmony all creative activity including industry, craft, agriculture, etc. A phalanstère (or phalanstery) was a type of building designed for a self-contained utopian community, ideally consisting of 500–2000 people working together for mutual benefit, and developed in the early 19th century by Charles Fourier.
Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of intentional communities. De tous les néologismes inventés par Fourier, celui par lequel il désigne ce lieu est sans doute un des rares qui a laissé une trace durable dans le langage commun : il s’agit en effet du « Phalanstère », mot créé par Fou…